Discover The Samsung SUR40 Powered By Microsoft PixelSense

A richer visual experience. With the rich color saturation from a full HD display and a large screen, the Samsung SUR40 offers a compelling, immersive and visual experience that draws people in.A vision-based touch experience.

With Microsoft PixelSense, the Samsung SUR40 sees and responds to touch and real world objects.Quick Controls. Venue staff can adjust basic settings like volume, brightness, and input source.Customization options. An improved configuration utility means you can quickly make changes to background images, configure applications, and modify settings without getting into code.Easier remote administration. 

Windows PowerShell scripts are easy to use and create, so the SUR40 can be deployed in an enterprise setting.Streamlined development for touch. The Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK makes it easy to develop applications that take advantage of the Samsung SUR40 and run on Windows 7 touch devices

Microsoft PixelSense allows a display to recognize fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen, enabling vision-based interaction without the use of cameras. The individual pixels in the display see what's touching the screen and that information is immediately processed and interpreted.

Think of it like the connection between the eye and the brain. You need both, working together, to see. In this case, the eye is the sensor in the panel, it picks up the image and it feeds that to the brain which is our vision input processor that recognizes the image and does something with it. Taken in whole…this is PixelSense technology.

 

A step-by-step look at how PixelSense works:

1.  A contact (finger/blob/tag/object) is placed on the display

2.  IR back light unit provides light (though the optical sheets, LCD and protection glass) that hits the contact.

3.  Light reflected back from the contact is seen by the integrated sensors

4.  Sensors convert the light signal into an electrical signal/value

5.  Values reported from all of the sensors are used to create a picture of what is on the display

6.  The picture is analyzed using image processing techniques

7.  The output is sent to the PC. It includes the corrected sensor image and various contact types (fingers/blobs/tags)

Microsoft Surface

Tablet? Ultrabook? No.It's Microsoft Surface

 

Mobile Tactile Tech Gets Physical

Tactus Technology is showcasing its next-gen mobile tactile tech at SID Display Week 2012 in Boston. 





Essentially, Tactus has created a Tactile Layer component that  generates a haptic user interface (UI) with real physical buttons, guidelines, and shapes which rise out of the surface from any touchscreen.



A Tactus spokesperson told TG Daily that its layer panel is the "world’s first" deformable tactile surface capable of creating dynamic physical buttons that users can actually see and feel in advance of entering data into the device. 

So how does it work?

Well, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create physical buttons that rise from the touchscreen to give users the experience or feeling of operating a physical keyboard. When no longer needed, the buttons recede back into the touchscreen, leaving no trace of their presence.

The Tactile Layer panel is a completely flat, transparent, dynamic surface that adds no extra thickness to the standard touchscreen display since it replaces a layer of the already existing display stack.

When triggered, the thin layer deforms and buttons or shapes of a specific height, size and firmness appear on the surface of the screen. Users can feel, press down and interact with these physical buttons just like they would use keys on a keyboard. 



Tactus Technology expects its Tactile Layer to help power a new generation of smartphone, tablets, ebook readers, gaming devices and automotive displays. 

For More Tactus

Core i7 Ivy Bridge CPU overclocked to record 7.032GHz on a Gigabyte motherboard

Ivy Bridge reviews mostly agree that the new architecture doesn’t overclock as well as Sandy Bridge, but that didn’t stop intrepid overclocker HiCookie from reaching 7.032GHz – a world record – with a Intel Core i7 3770K running on a Gigabyte motherboard. He also set a world record for DDR3 overclocking while he was at it. 

The world records have been validated by CPUz and Canard PC and you can watch them being set on video (after the break).

Here’s some more details on the setup used by HiCookie:

• GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H
• Intel Core i7 3770K
• Corsair Dominator GT (@2250 MHz)
• Corsair AX1200 PSU

Before you head over to Amazon to buy a similar setup to use at home, you should know that this clock speed was achieved while cooling the CPU with liquid nitrogen (as is usually the case with such records).

For the DDR3 record, four G.Skill Trident X DDR3-2800 modules were used and they hit 3280MHz. A different motherboard was used too – a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD5H.

Via Gsmarena